Working with the
ACES Color Pipeline
On set and beyond: How Silverstack and Livegrade enable ACES-compliant color management.
Why ACES?
The Academy Color Encoding System.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences developed ACES as an industry standard for color management in film productions. ACES specifies a color pipeline with a large set of standard transforms, that aims to realize one common
technical base for color in all steps in film production – including on-set monitoring of camera signals, creation of dailies, VFX, final color grading, and archive.
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Livegrade Pro: Look Management and Dailies Preparation.
Livegrade Pro offers look management and live preview of camera signals in the ACES color pipeline, and offers exchange of look metadata with other ACES compatible products.
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Livegrade Studio: The State-of-the-Art Digital Imaging System.
Livegrade Studio supports HDR workflows in various ways – with intelligent HDR / SDR monitoring features and support for ACES-based or custom HDR color pipelines.
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Silverstack XT: Media Management and Quality Control.
Silverstack XT comes with an ACES pipeline for recorded footage of digital film cameras. It allows playback and QC of camera clips in the software as well as on HD-SDI, and offers features for exchanging color information with other ACES compatible products.
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Silverstack Lab: Seamless Dailies Creation.
Silverstack Lab enables the creation of ACES compliant dailies and proxies. It’s transcoding engine features a full ACES pipeline, and its comprehensive clip library acts as a project wide hub for look information.
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Because this was all done in ACES, when the DP finally walks into the coloring suite, he sees all the footage exactly the way he made it on set, even though it’s in a different color space.
Seamless matching of colors on set and in post with ACES
When working on set, DITs deliver a whole package of services, that often goes beyond the offloading and securing of footage. For his production “Gelukzoekers”, DIT Thijs Bazelmans handled the whole process from live grading to the final handover of material to post production. In a recent interview he talks about his on-set workflow, and explains how ACES enabled a seamless matching of colors on set and in post.
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Productions Using Our Software with ACES
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